Now it's your turn. Write a summary of this short article
Read this funny story about letter writing and write in two or three lines the essentials of the story.
23rd Feb.
Now choose one of these two articles to write a complete summary. Remember, only essential information should be registered. You must underline and number the relevant information, as we did yesterday in class and then write the summary. You can also choose a different article of similar length (about 800 - 1000 words).
4-Do this true/false activity about letter writing, then write the letter following the instructions they give you, you can use this letter generatorto get the format.
Dec 6th.
Do the following activities to practise useful expressions in business letters and take notes of the new vocabulary. Email the work to your teacher, both the screen captures and the vocabulary notes
- Deberíamos haber pedido un préstamo al banco.
- Habrá problemas en las negociaciones.
- Si hubiéramos seguido los consejos del gerente, no habría habido tantos problemas.
- No puede haber ninguna duda respecto al valor de las acciones de nuestra empresa.
- Tendría que haber una reunión la semana que viene.
- Para que haya consumismo debe haber crecimiento económico.
6 innovative tactics to prepare a brand for the future of ecommerce.
sept 30th
Read these analysis of the first presidential debate, look up any other reliable sources and get ready to talk about it. Here are some points you might want to talk about:
- What did you learn reading these articles?
- What points did they treat in the debate?
- What are the main points they dissagree on?
- Does the source you read take sides? whose side and why?
- Who do you think won this first debate?
- Do you support Trump? Why?
- If you don't, what worries you most about Trump becoming president?
sept 21st-23rd
1, Grammar, Tense revision, Do the following activities. Ask the teacher any questions you may have and send a document with the screen captures of the final screens.
2. Read this articleand complete the following sentences. E-mail the answers to the teacher.
- Russia's economy will contract a minimum of .... %, that is if the oil price is .... $ per barrel but if prices get as low as ... $ per barrel, then contraction will be between ... % and .. %.
- The average income in Russian households will also decline up to ...%
- The country which needs the highest oil price to balance its budget is....., while the country least dependent on high oil prices is ...
- The two main reasons why oil prices have fallen are: .................................... and .............................................
sept 13th
1. Finish your work on intercultural negotiation article. It must be handed in today.
2. If you have time, check this new article
You can practise reading comprehension on-line
and summarize the content of the text.
For business English comprehension, follow this link
Friday 13th March.
Please assess the teacher's work If you have passed this subject, you can play games in English If you haven't, practise the parts you have to retake, capture the final screen of every activity you do and e-mail it to the teacher.
13- Work with finance vocabulary.Capture the final screen of every activity you do, paste the captures on a word document and e-mail it to the teacher.
9- Follow this listening lesson and take notes of the main collocations and expressions.
8- Read and take notes of the main ideas in these articles. After that, you can give your opinion on the subject.
Je suis Charlie? I am not Charlie Hebdo You can also check and comment the translation made for El País internacional Find the following expressions in the article:
Se les aclama=
Seamos francos=
Durante las dos últimas décadas=
Incitación al odio=
Idolatrar=
Reaccionar de manera exagerada=
Despedir=
Retirar el reconocimiento=
Insistía en que estuviese dirigida=
peticiones de que se prohíban sus intervenciones=
Una ocasión para aprender algo=
Una postura menos hipócrita=
La mayoría de nosotros no practicamos de verdad=
Los provocadores y otras figuras estrafalarias cumplen una función pública útil=
Minan el autobombo de los triunfadores=
Reducen la desigualdad social=
Los poderosos=
Por antonomasia=
Poner de relieve=
Dejar espacio=
Tipos desafiantes=
Conceden un estatus diferente=
Ser selectivos desde el punto de vista social=
4. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Task: 1- Find at least one British source of information and one American. 2- Get the main ideas about both the position of Europe and the position of USA in the negotiation process. 3- Take notes on the differences between British English and American English which you have found while reading the article. 4- You must print your report and hand it in or e-mail it to the teacher. It is very important to mention your sources. (from Friday 28th to Wednesday 3rd December)
3. REVISE GRAMMAR THROUGH BUSINESS EXPRESSIONS 3.1 USE OF ARTICLES: Do as many exercises as you need to feel confident with the use of ARTICLES.
3.2 VERB TENSES. Do as many exercises as you need to feel confident with the use of TENSES. If you find the following activities too difficult, go back to the basics, follow this link to remedial grammar.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 2016-17
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Further practice with linking words
Revise linking wordsLinks. Activity 1
Links. Activity 2
Links. Activity 3.
Links. Activity 4
Links. Activity 5
Links. Activity 6
Revise tenses
Mixed tensesMixed tenses 2
Mixed tenses 3
mixed tenses 4
Mixed tenses 5
Mixed tenses active and passive
Tenses and other verb forms
Summary writing.Feb 3rd
Follow this Explanation
and follow also the link to linkers
Read and practise Finding main ideas in paragraphs
Now it's your turn. Write a summary of this short article
Read this funny story about letter writing and write in two or three lines the essentials of the story.
23rd Feb.
Now choose one of these two articles to write a complete summary. Remember, only essential information should be registered. You must underline and number the relevant information, as we did yesterday in class and then write the summary. You can also choose a different article of similar length (about 800 - 1000 words).America /China war
or Inequality in the UKWorking with numbers. 27th JAN
Big numbers in businessMixed numbers DICTATION
Phone numbers
Revise years if you are not sure how to read them
Business situations revision 31st JAN
Telephone language
Complaining and apologising
19th-20th JANFormal expressions of complaint and apology
More expressions for letters (prepositions)
Letter of complaint and practice
Letter of apology and practice
24th - 25th Jan
Revise expressions of complaintIn pairs, practise similar dialogues
Watch and study the video and then prepare mini-dialogues using the questions and useful language provided
REVISING FOR TEST
10th-12th Jan.
- Revise all letter expressions and format, you can see a larger variety of useful sentences with Spanish equivalent here:
letters-specific-language.doc
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- You can also revise a good set of expressions here There is a short test at the end of the page that you should take and send the teacher.
UNDERSTANDING THE BIG SHORT.
3rd-6th JanThese links will help you understand the film and the financial language they use.
5 things you should know
Getting a general idea
Credit default swaps
General analysis of the film
Characters and real people
Beyond the big ShortWhat you don't see in the film but really happened..
A good, simple analysis of the crisis
BUSINESS LETTERS
13th Dec
Translate the following expressions into English. Check the examples you have in the documents below.
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Dec 8th and 9th.
1- Read the following business letters samples contrast them with the photocopy you have and take notes of the new vocabulary.
2- Check this Explanation and advice about letter writing.
Business letters.docx
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3- Find the mistakes in this letter
4-Do this true/false activity about letter writing, then write the letter following the instructions they give you, you can use this letter generatorto get the format.
Dec 6th.
Do the following activities to practise useful expressions in business letters and take notes of the new vocabulary. Email the work to your teacher, both the screen captures and the vocabulary notes
Dec 2nd.
Talking about gender roles, media and gender violence. The power of an image.
Dec 1st.
Problem solving
Nov 30th
Comment on the difference between the use of make up in this video and this one
Now read this article and comment on it.
Nov 24th
Comment on this video.
Obama Trump
Explanations and some practice with linkers
Practise with contrast linkers
contrast 2
mixed linkers
Nov 15th
You can follow today's lesson: making sure an order is delivered BEP 120
Checking_Order.pdf
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Nov 8th
Keep practising the causative passive.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Reading corner
Oct 18th
Special passive cases
Oct 7th
Look at these sentences and try to find the rules of use for: ALREADY, STILL, YET, ANY MORE, ANY LONGER, NO MORE, NO LONGER.
Now do this exercise
Oct 4th.
There to be.
Follow this lesson and translate these sentences:- Deberíamos haber pedido un préstamo al banco.
- Habrá problemas en las negociaciones.
- Si hubiéramos seguido los consejos del gerente, no habría habido tantos problemas.
- No puede haber ninguna duda respecto al valor de las acciones de nuestra empresa.
- Tendría que haber una reunión la semana que viene.
- Para que haya consumismo debe haber crecimiento económico.
sept 27th-29th
Read this Forbes article
How SoulCycle, Amazon, And Reebok Are Leading The Way In Ecommerce.pdf
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6 innovative tactics to prepare a brand for the future of ecommerce.
sept 30th
Read these analysis of the first presidential debate, look up any other reliable sources and get ready to talk about it. Here are some points you might want to talk about:
- What did you learn reading these articles?
- What points did they treat in the debate?
- What are the main points they dissagree on?
- Does the source you read take sides? whose side and why?
- Who do you think won this first debate?
- Do you support Trump? Why?
- If you don't, what worries you most about Trump becoming president?
sept 21st-23rd
1, Grammar, Tense revision, Do the following activities. Ask the teacher any questions you may have and send a document with the screen captures of the final screens.
Mixed verb tenses 1
Mixed verb tenses 2
Mixed verb tenses 3
Mixed verb tenses 4
Mixed verb tenses 5
Mixed verb tenses 6
Mixed verb tenses 7
Mixed verb tenses 8
Mixed verb tenses 9
Mixed verb tenses 10
All tenses active and passive
2. Read this articleand complete the following sentences. E-mail the answers to the teacher.
- Russia's economy will contract a minimum of .... %, that is if the oil price is .... $ per barrel but if prices get as low as ... $ per barrel, then contraction will be between ... % and .. %.
- The average income in Russian households will also decline up to ...%
- The country which needs the highest oil price to balance its budget is....., while the country least dependent on high oil prices is ...
- The two main reasons why oil prices have fallen are: .................................... and .............................................
sept 13th
1. Finish your work on intercultural negotiation article. It must be handed in today.2. If you have time, check this new article
sept 9th
Read this article: Intercultural negotiation
Take notes of the words and expressions you don't understand and write a summary with the main ideas.
READING. Go to the reading corner, where you can get access to different books and stories and download the reading worksheet.
Pronouns and possessives
Object pronounsPossessive adjectives
Possessive pronouns
Mixed activity
Reflexive pronouns
Possessive case
Explanation in SpanishActivity 1
More explqnqtions in English
Revision for test
Apart from all the work we have done during the year, those of you who have only one part should concentrate on:
Grammar:
All tenses active and passive
If you find these activities too difficult, start with the basics, follow this link to remedial grammar
and then go back to mixed verb tenses.
Articles:
Choose the right article 1
Choose the right article 2
Choose the right article 3
Choose the right article 4
Choose the right article 5
Choose the right article 6
Choose the right article 7
Choose the right article 8
Choose the right article 9
Choose the right article 10
Reading and Writing
Most frequent linkers with translation and explanation of the structure
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You can practise reading comprehension on-line
and summarize the content of the text.
For business English comprehension, follow this link
Friday 13th March.
Please assess the teacher's workIf you have passed this subject, you can play games in English
If you haven't, practise the parts you have to retake, capture the final screen of every activity you do and e-mail it to the teacher.
13- Work with finance vocabulary. Capture the final screen of every activity you do, paste the captures on a word document and e-mail it to the teacher.
Finance vocabulary 1Finance vocabulary 2
Finance vocabulary 3
Finance vocabulary 4
Finance vocabulary 5
Business Plans 1
When you have finished all the activities correctly, you can revise or read news in English.
12- We're getting close to the end of this course now, so revise the activities on this page because you are going to be tested on them.
Capture the final screen of every activity you do, paste the captures on a word document and e-mail it to the teacher.Make sure you get your tenses right.
11- Continue with vocabulary practice, capture the final screen of every activity, paste the captures on a word document and e-mail it to the teacher.
English for Sales 5
English for Sales - Trade Shows 1
English for Sales - Trade Shows 2
Marketing Vocabulary 1
Marketing Vocabulary 2
Marketing Vocabulary 3
Marketing Vocabulary 4
Marketing Vocabulary 5
Marketing Vocabulary 6
10- Practise with phrasal verbs which are frequently used in business.
Phrasal verbs 1
Phrasal verbs 2
Phrasal verbs 3
Phrasal verbs 4
Phrasal verbs 5
Phrasal verbs 6
Phrasal verbs 7
You can also try activity 8 but this is extra.
More extra activities: you can have a look at these initiatives against TTIP and CETA, the reasons they giveand the protests they they're staging
9- Follow this listening lesson and take notes of the main collocations and expressions.
8- Read and take notes of the main ideas in these articles. After that, you can give your opinion on the subject.
Je suis Charlie?I am not Charlie Hebdo You can also check and comment the translation made for El País internacional
Find the following expressions in the article:
Se les aclama=
Seamos francos=
Durante las dos últimas décadas=
Incitación al odio=
Idolatrar=
Reaccionar de manera exagerada=
Despedir=
Retirar el reconocimiento=
Insistía en que estuviese dirigida=
peticiones de que se prohíban sus intervenciones=
Una ocasión para aprender algo=
Una postura menos hipócrita=
La mayoría de nosotros no practicamos de verdad=
Los provocadores y otras figuras estrafalarias cumplen una función pública útil=
Minan el autobombo de los triunfadores=
Reducen la desigualdad social=
Los poderosos=
Por antonomasia=
Poner de relieve=
Dejar espacio=
Tipos desafiantes=
Conceden un estatus diferente=
Ser selectivos desde el punto de vista social=
7- Rephrasing in business English
Choose the right synonym (Sales & Marketing) 1Choose the right synonym (Sales & Marketing) 2
Choose the right synonym (Sales & Marketing) 3
Choose the right synonym (Sales & Marketing) 4
Choose the right synonym (Sales & Marketing) 5
English for Sales 1
English for Sales 2
English for Sales 3
English for Sales 4
Christmas is coming
So, if you're still in class today...
you can learn a bit about strange christmas traditions around the world.
You can also listen to some Christmas songs and follow the lyrics:
- Frosty the snowman
- Jingle bell rock
3. Or if you really mean business, then you can...Last Chrismas
Santa Claus is coming
6. Practise reading comprehension
A- Read this text and answer the questions.5.Revise the use of future tenses
- Join the two parts of the sentences
- Do this activity and pay attention to the use of future, it's different from French
- Go through the explanation about future tenses and do the activities
- Another activity to practice future tenses
- future mixed sentences
- Mixed revision of grammar and vocabulary Do this activity, take notes of your mistakes and ask your teacher about the correct solution.
4. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Task:1- Find at least one British source of information and one American.
2- Get the main ideas about both the position of Europe and the position of USA in the negotiation process.
3- Take notes on the differences between British English and American English which you have found while reading the article.
4- You must print your report and hand it in or e-mail it to the teacher. It is very important to mention your sources. (from Friday 28th to Wednesday 3rd December)
3. REVISE GRAMMAR THROUGH BUSINESS EXPRESSIONS
3.1 USE OF ARTICLES:
Do as many exercises as you need to feel confident with the use of ARTICLES.
Choose the right article 1
Choose the right article 2
Choose the right article 3
Choose the right article 4
Choose the right article 5
Choose the right article 6
Choose the right article 7
Choose the right article 8
Choose the right article 9
Choose the right article 10
3.2 VERB TENSES.
Do as many exercises as you need to feel confident with the use of TENSES. If you find the following activities too difficult, go back to the basics, follow this link to remedial grammar.
Mixed verb tenses 1
Mixed verb tenses 2
Mixed verb tenses 3
Mixed verb tenses 4
Mixed verb tenses 5
Mixed verb tenses 6
Mixed verb tenses 7
Mixed verb tenses 8
Mixed verb tenses 9
Mixed verb tenses 10
All the activities from this point are part of the contents for the first TEST (November 10th)
You may need to revise the use of present simple and present continuos. You will find some useful activities if you follow the link to remedial work1. INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION AND PROTOCOL.
Read and discuss:2. LEARN BUSINESS VOCABULARY
Easy language:
Telephone Language 1
Telephone Language 2
Answering Requests
Because/so that etc.
More complex expressions:
Business Expressions 1
Business Expressions 2
Business Expressions 3
Business Expressions 4
Business Expressions 5
Business Idioms
More Business Vocabulary
Do these activities and check your level
Business English basic expressions